Crooked by Austin Grossman

Author:Austin Grossman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2015-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

The next twenty hours or so may have been my first term as president; I’ve never been quite sure. Eisenhower was unconscious but not officially incapacitated and no one bothered to sign anything to the effect that I was in charge.

“There is some impairment in speech and motor control but I believe he’ll recover. Were you there when it happened? Was there a particular stress involved?”

“N…no. Not at all. I was working in another room.”

Eisenhower still knew me, more or less. He evinced a complete grasp of domestic policy and international relations. He seemed to have lost only that knowledge of which he was sole possessor, the key to America’s grand strategy of supernatural geopolitics, along with any awareness that there was such a thing.

The old discipline of American magic died with Eisenhower’s stroke. Knowledge saved and passed on for two hundred years had disappeared in an instant. I could only guess at what had been lost. Ritual initiation. Modes of attack and defense. Eisenhower claimed to have killed Stalin—how? And there must have been a history, a secret chronicle of the greatest empire the world has ever known.

Taft had pieced it together once, Eisenhower had said. But from what? I went back to the meager White House library, but it was useless. The knowledge was gone.

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